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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Not daddy’s girls

Achan with his best friends!!

My sister and I were never ‘daddy’s little
girls', in the strict sense of the word. We were never overtly pampered nor was
bratty behavior encouraged.

He was not one of those dads who
would swoop us off our feet and whirl us around, so that the world around us
seems cocooned in a happy blur nor was he given to display of emotions. But he
was also the kind of dad, who never missed a PTA at school or would clap the hardest,
even if we were the insignificant little bushes in the school play.

My sister
and I have found him by our side, whenever we needed him and even

when we did
not. He drove us around everywhere; to extra classes and blood tests or to the
same boutique for the third time in a single day. He made us feel that we are special enough for
him, to put his life on hold for us.

Now my sister and I are lucky to see
our children share a bond with him, which is even more special than what we
had. He is their friend, playmate, Santa Claus and guardian angel all rolled
into one. The three of them have a formed a circle of love and camaraderie so
strong, that even we, as their mothers, find ourselves on its periphery.

I sometimes think of him welcoming me
into this world, on his birthday. Would he have felt deliriously happy and excited,
to share his birthday with his first born or would he have taken me in his arms,
as if it were the most normal thing in the world? I like to believe, that the
answer lies in the name that he chose for me.

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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their body but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,which you cannot visit,not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you...
Kahlil Gibran-The Prophet